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Sorry to Bother You | 2018 | R | - 7.6.10
An African-American telemarketer (Lakeith Stanfield) learns to use a white-sounding voice to make more money selling books. He becomes successful, but encounters problems with a telemarketer's union, protestors, drugs, and a herd of hybrid horse-humans. Also with Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick, Terry Crews, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun, Armie Hammer, and the voices of Patton Oswalt and David Cross. Directed by Boots Riley. [1:45]
► A man and a woman have sex on a couch: the man is thrusting on top of the woman, whose underwear is pulled down (the man' bare back buttocks and legs are shown and one of the woman's thighs and a shoulder); we hear grunts, moans and a smacking of genital friction. Three couples in a darkened room are having sex in chairs and we see the bare backs and buttocks of two women thrusting over their obscured male partners; then we see the back of a man (his bare back and buttocks are evident) thrusting on a woman who is obscured except for a partial thigh and partial shoulder.
► A man and a woman rush into an apartment as they kiss, begin to take each other's tops off and the scene ends (sex is implied). A man is shirtless in 3 scenes, and a woman wears a T-shirt and skimpy underwear as they lie in bed and kiss, suggesting sex as the scenes end. A close-up of a woman from the back shows her adjust her bra straps and stand up off the man who is sitting on the floor (sex is implied); when they stand up we see his shorts and her underwear (we see the man's partial buttocks as he pulls the back of his shorts up). A man kisses a woman for several seconds in an art studio and the scene ends (sex is implied). Two clothed men pretend to have face-to-face sex, standing up. A huge, colorful cartoon-like statue depicts a clothed man having sex with a horse.
► A man sitting on a toilet exposes one bare partial buttock, thigh, and lower leg in profile. Five women at a party wear very short skirts or short-shorts. A few dresses reveal a little cleavage. A woman wears tight-fitting leggings in several scenes that accentuate her buttocks and thighs. In an apartment, a woman stands in the background wearing a bra (a little cleavage and bare abdomen are seen).
► A man kisses a woman briefly. A woman kisses a man for several seconds.
► A man tells a group that they may have contracted Chlamydia or Gonorrhea (no explanation is given).
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► A horse-human hybrid talks into the video box at the gate of a residence and the camera cuts to the living room, where the hybrid breaks in and roars, ending the scene. A man walks into a washroom and a horse-human hybrid falls out of a toilet stall, shuddering and screaming in pain on the floor; several other hybrids appear and the man darts into the hall, his trousers wet from what he later explains is urine and another man points a gun at him and says hybrids are the new American slave labor, stronger and more productive. A man rudely points a riding crop at other people at a party, and he points a handgun at an employee and tells him that he must become a hybrid horse-human to manage a new race of future slaves; the employee becomes angry and curses for several seconds.
► Several scenes of a popular TV game show are violent: In a close-up of the back of a man's head, something unclear repeatedly strikes him in the face and his head jerks and the man groans; another scene shows a woman's crying face as a man repeatedly punches her (blood covers her face and streams down her neck to her chest), someone hits a man in the face with a large fish several times, a man is held by two other men as another man punches the captive in the stomach over a dozen times and we hear groans (the camera cuts to the victim and he is standing, covered in feces head-to-toe, shuddering). A woman in a crowd throws an unopened can of soda to hit a man in the forehead and laughs; the man falls, grabs his head, and wears a white headband spotted with blood for several days afterward.
► A woman wearing a trench coat stands on a stage, removes the coat to show a bra made of two large gloves (a little cleavage is seen) and another glove covering her genitals, with the middle finger pointed up; an audience throws cells phones and balloons of goat's blood at her, covering her in blood and scratches as she recites some literature.
► Several TV commercials show the employees of a large company living in cells of four people each, wear prison overalls and eat from prison trays; we hear that they are unpaid, work 14 hours a day and that the CEO is rich from selling slave labor globally. An area in a city is filled with tents, garbage bags spilling trash onto pavements, and unreadable graffiti on walls. A man and a woman live in a dilapidated garage. A man shows cellphone video from a washroom scene where horse-human hybrids are seen on several TV stations to encourage workers to fight slavery. A man begins to transform into a horse-human hybrid, his nostrils becoming oversized and his girlfriend looks frightened. We see a man transforming into a horse-human hybrid in a Claymation video.
► Two men argue. A man and a woman argue several times. In Claymation, a caveman hits another caveman on the head with a coconut. In a call center, two managers shout, stomp, and curse at employees who refuse to make calls. An elderly woman cries on the phone about her husband's stage-four cancer. A woman makes earrings out of words: Murder-Murder-Murder and Kill-Kill-Kill and she also has a set that are images of a man strapped into an electric chair.
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